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Sell Direct-to-Consumer or Through Amazon (HBR Case Study)
Teixeira, Thales S.Article HBS-R1902X-EStrategyFor a company that's trying to reach more customers, selling on Amazon might seem to be a no-brainer. But there are plenty of risks: A firm might get dragged into a price war with low-cost competitors, and Amazon, not the firm, will own the data on customers--and could use it to create its own competing products. In this fictional case study, the head of marketing at a young e-bike maker thinks through the pros and cons of selling on Amazon and o...Starting at €8.20
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Sell Direct-to-Consumer or Through Amazon? (HBR Case Study and Commentary)
Teixeira, Thales S.Article HBS-R1902M-EStrategyFor a company that's trying to reach more customers, selling on Amazon might seem to be a no-brainer. But there are plenty of risks: A firm might get dragged into a price war with low-cost competitors, and Amazon, not the firm, will own the data on customers--and could use it to create its own competing products. In this fictional case study, the head of marketing at a young e-bike maker thinks through the pros and cons of selling on Amazon and o...Starting at €8.20
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Sell Direct-to-Consumer or Through Amazon (Commentary for HBR Case Study)
Teixeira, Thales S.Article HBS-R1902Z-EStrategyFor a company that's trying to reach more customers, selling on Amazon might seem to be a no-brainer. But there are plenty of risks: A firm might get dragged into a price war with low-cost competitors, and Amazon, not the firm, will own the data on customers--and could use it to create its own competing products. In this fictional case study, the head of marketing at a young e-bike maker thinks through the pros and cons of selling on Amazon and o...Starting at €8.20
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Analyzing Amazon's Move to Get Physical
Sam CinquegraniArticle IVEY-9B17TB03-EStrategyAmazon Go—grocery shopping without lineups and checkouts—is the latest in Amazon’s pursuit of new shopping experiences. Scheduled to open in 2017, Amazon Go will provide Seattle customers with the opportunity to shop for groceries without standing in line and then waiting while a clerk checks out groceries item by item. Instead, with a smartphone app and advanced technology, shoppers can take their items from the shelf and “Just Walk Out.” Amazon...Starting at €8.20
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El sí institucional: la entrevista HBR a Jeff Bezos
Bezos, Jeff; Kirby, Julia; Stewart, Thomas A.Article HBS-R0710CLeadership and People ManagementDesde su fundación, en 1995, de Amazon.com audaces a menudo han dejado observadores rascándose la cabeza, si no es la predicción de la desaparición de la empresa. ¿Por qué abrir una plataforma minorista propietaria efectiva a la competencia de los vendedores de terceros? ¿Por qué herramientas de maquillaje que Amazon desarrollados para su propio uso a disposición de otros desarrolladores de sitios web? (¿Por qué, para el caso, colocar comentarios...Starting at €8.20
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Institutional Yes: The HBR Interview with Jeff Bezos
Bezos, Jeff; Kirby, Julia; Stewart, Thomas A.Article HBS-R0710C-ELeadership and People ManagementSince its founding, in 1995, Amazon.com's bold moves have often left observers scratching their heads, if not predicting the company's demise. Why open up an effective proprietary retail platform to competition from third-party sellers? Why make tools that Amazon developed for its own use available to other website developers? (Why, for that matter, post negative reviews of your products?) Two HBR editors interviewed Bezos, the founder and CEO, t...Starting at €8.20
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When Platforms Attack
Harvard Business ReviewArticle HBS-F1510A-EStrategyAmazon began life as an online bookseller, of course, but now there are few products you can't buy on the site. New research led by HBS's Feng Zhu investigates a common worry of Amazon's third-party sellers: What happens when, instead of just matching buyers and sellers, the platform decides to offer competing products itself? Zhu's team examined 164,000 products sold exclusively by third parties and found that 10 months later, Amazon had begun d...Starting at €8.20
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How to Win with Machine Learning
Agrawal, Ajay; Gans, Joshua; Goldfarb, AviArticle HBS-R2005L-EInformation TechnologiesMany companies can dramatically improve their products and services by using machine learning--an application of artificial intelligence that involves generating predictions from data inputs. Amazon, Google, and other tech giants are already experts at taStarting at €8.20
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The Business of Culture
Juan Luis SuárezArticle IVEY-9B15TD05-EMarketingCulture has long been considered marginal to the functional areas of business, but in the digital age culture is the new corporate interface. This article addresses common misconceptions about culture and suggests that we view it as information, while assuming that information makes and destroys communities. Firms must devise cultural strategies that allow them to deal with the communities that make up their ecosystem and take advantage of the di...Starting at €8.20
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Can Big Tech Be Disrupted? (Spanish version)
Knee, Jonathan; Beard, AlisonArticle HBS-S22014StrategyThe tech giants Facebook (now Meta), Amazon, Apple, Google (now Alphabet), Microsoft, and Netflix are all so successful--and generate so much cash--that they seem virtually unstoppable. Yet according to Jonathan Knee, a Columbia Business School professor and veteran investment banker specializing in media and tech, even the digital superpowers face threats. In this interview he shares an analysis of the weaknesses and strengths of the large tech ...Starting at €8.20